[hardy-l] Re typo: D'Urbervilles

[Rosemarie Morgan]

Sorry -  typo   Meant "fetishising" !

Rosemarie

>As to "fetishing" virginity. -- (commonly taken to refer to hymen-repair 
>surgery) if Hardy's readers follow his lead in rendering the thing utterly 
>precious one can hardly blame them :
>
>  "Why was it that upon this beautiful feminine tissue, sensitive as 
> gossamer, and practically blank as snow as yet, there should have been 
> traced such a coarse pattern as it was doomed to receive..." (IX)